Academic articles
2019
-‘British cinema and television’, in John Hill (editor), A Companion to British and Irish Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell). [Forthcoming.]
2017
-‘Drama as science documentary: The ethics of making and “banning” The Black Pool’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 37:1. Available here.
2016
-‘British Docudrama: New Directions in Reflexivity’, in Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Derek Paget (editors), Docudrama on European Television: A Selective Survey (Palgrave Macmillan). Available here.
2015
-‘Studio as hybridised community space: For the Love of Albert’, Critical Studies in Television, 10:3. Available here.
2014
-‘William Hartnell’, Science Fiction Film and Television, 7:2. [Short piece within ‘Many Doctors symposium’.] Available here.
2013
-‘The Singing Detective 25th Anniversary Symposium’, Journal of Screenwriting, 4:3. Available here.
-‘Is This England ’86 and ’88? Memory, haunting and return through television seriality’, in Martin Fradley, Sarah Godfrey and Melanie Williams (editors), Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (Edinburgh University Press). Available here. (Co-written with Faye Woods.)
-‘The helium of publicity: mass-mediated terrierism’, in James Leggott and Jamie Sexton (editors), No Known Cure: The Comedy of Chris Morris (British Film Institute). Available here.
2012
-‘“You’re still living in the Middle Ages!”: Time Travel in Doctor Who and Pseudo-Historical, Neomedieval, Alternate Realities’, in Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements (editors), Neomedievalism in the Media: Film, Television, and Electronic Games (Edwin Mellen Press). Available here.
2011
– ‘Small Screens and Big Voices: Televisual Social Realism and the Popular’, in David Tucker (editor), British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 (Palgrave Macmillan). Available here.
2010
-‘Documentary of “last resort”? The case of Shoot to Kill’, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 17:1. Available here.
-‘Moonbase 3 and the limitations of reality in Apollo-era TV SF’, Science Fiction Film and Television, 3:1. Available here.
-‘The last studio system: a case for British television films’ in Paul Newland (editor), Don’t Look Now: British Cinema of the 1970s (Intellect). Available here.
2008
-‘“A new wilderness”: language and memory in the television science fiction of Nigel Kneale’, Science Fiction Film and Television, 1:1. Available here. (Co-written.)
2007
-‘The surprise of a large town: depicting regional space in Alan Plater’s Land of Green Ginger’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 4:2. Available here.
-‘Who done it: discourses of authorship in the John Nathan-Turner era’, in David Butler (editor), Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who (Manchester University Press). Available here.
2005
-‘Sweet Sixteen’, in Brian McFarlane (editor), The Cinema of Britain and Ireland (Wallflower Press).
2003
-‘If they want culture, they pay: consumerism and alienation in 50s comedies’, in Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard (editors), British Cinema of the 1950s: A Celebration (Manchester University Press). Available here.
2002
-‘Bring Something Back: the strange career of Professor Bernard Quatermass’, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 30:3. Available here. (Co-written with Nick Cooper.)

Conference papers, seminar papers and public talks
2017
-‘I append the map: A documentary history of Penda’s Fen’, British Film Institute, Child Be Strange symposium (June).
2016
-‘Showtime and British television drama in the 1980s: Tender is the Night (1985)’, University of Glasgow, Screen (June).
-‘The Gogglebox before Gogglebox: viewing viewers in 1980s programmes anticipating the 1990 Broadcasting Act’, University of Hull, Material Cultures of Television (March).
-‘Duplicated bodies and the performance of self in contemporary biopics about television: Hancock, Steptoe, Hattie and others’, seminar paper, University of Stirling (February) [following a paper by Richard Kilborn on Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son].
2015
-‘Ethics and affect in the making and “banning” of The Black Pool’, seminar paper, University of Glasgow (November).
-‘Drama as science documentary: Alan Plater’s banned Horizon: The Black Pool’, Royal Holloway University of London Egham campus, Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected (April).
-‘Studio as hybridised community space: BBC Manchester, Alan Plater and For the Love of Albert’, Manchester Metropolitan University, BAFTSS 2015 (April).
-‘Hull on Television’, University of Hull, Ferens Film Lecture, invited public talk (March).
2014
-‘That’s how they make days in these parts: Alan Plater on Northern televisual form’, University of York, Northern Stories (July).
-‘Adventures in Studio Space: British television’s creative environments’, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, NECS 2014: Creative Energies/Creative industries (June).
-Keynote: ‘That’s what you think: Alan Clarke talks back’, University of York, Realist Film and Television after Alan Clarke (June).
-‘This will be remembered for as long as people talk about television: frameworks of forgetting’, University of Ulster Belfast Campus, Forgotten Television Drama early project symposium (February).
2013
-‘What Was Ahead: studio as gateway in Doctor Who ‘Warriors’ Gate’ (1981)’, University of Reading, Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style (September).
-‘“We shall be answerable”: ethics and affect in the making and banning of The Black Pool’, Stockholm Filmhuset, Visible Evidence XX (August).
-‘Beyond the reach of the cartographer: the reviewing writer and the writing reviewer’, Forest of Dean, Dennis Potter Day (June).
-‘Bombdogs’, University of Northumbria, Why Bother? A Symposium on the comedy of Chris Morris (June).
-‘“Did you recognize yourself?”: women workers In Vision’, University of Warwick, Television for Women (May).
-‘Archives and ethics: researching docudrama’, seminar paper, University of Stirling (May).
2011
-Plenary roundtable speaker, University of Northumbria, Alien Nation: A Conference on British Telefantasy (July).
2009
-‘Reflections on researching the war on terror’, seminar paper, University of Stirling (November).
-‘Archival research into the television work of Alan Plater’, University of Stirling, Archives and Auteurs (September). [A revised version of the 2008 Sheffield paper.]
-‘Gesture politics and control freak actors: New Labour as performance in The Deal and The Queen’, University of Reading, Acting with Facts: Performing the Real in British Theatre and Television since 1990 (May).
2008
-‘Televisual aesthetics and 1970s British TV drama: selected case studies’, seminar paper, University of Wales Aberystwyth (November).
-‘Archival research into the television work of Alan Plater’, University of Sheffield, Exploring Television Archives: An International Conference (August).
2007
-‘The surprise of a large town: depicting Hull in Alan Plater’s Land of Green Ginger’, seminar paper, University of Hull (May).
2006
-‘The afterlife of P. C. George Dixon: from The Blue Lamp to The Black and Blue Lamp’, University of Hull, Ealing Revisited.
-‘Living in a box: the Northern city in Road’, University of Hull, The Literary North.
2005
-‘To Encourage the Others: dramatising the Craig-Bentley trial’, seminar paper, University of Reading (February).
2002
-‘The Decaying Victor: Fifties Britain and The Quatermass Experiment’, University of Hull, Exploiting Fear: The Art and Appeal of Horror on Film (October).
-‘You dirty old man!: masculinity and class in Steptoe and Son’, Froebel College University of Surrey Roehampton, The Importance of Being Arthur: Representations of Men and Masculinity 1954-1963 (July).
-‘Retrieving Dixon: The Black and Blue Lamp’, University of Leeds, Retrieving the 1940s (April).
2001
-‘Denarrativizing Realism: Thatcherism and the individual in Alan Clarke’s 1980s film dramas’, seminar paper, University of Hull (April).

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